For Indians, especially the Bengali, the relationship with the British could be likened to the kind grown-ups have with their part-benevolent, part-abusive fathers. Some of the wounds seem to have healed, but when you lift the scab, the pink still has touches of red. Over time, you realise that you are looking forward to that scar. It would be an inheritance, like your genes.
Today, we think twice before calling any city our mother, especially the massive, merciless metropoleis, yet the t... [more]

The director has found parts of my paper on Jamini Roy (see previous blog entries) relevant enough to be used in the voiceover. As a result of this, I have got my first (and perhaps only) film credit. You can read about the film here: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/a-life-in-colours/article5049770.ece
see the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGhJKveubngand purchase a DVD here: http://bihaanmusic.com/dvd.php?id=500 [more]

Published in Art India Magazine, Volume XVIII Issue I Quarter I 2013, Cover Story: Colloquies
Over the years, Jayashree Chakravarty (b.1956) has created paintings that look like beguiling dream-maps – calligraphic notations, whirling squiggles, layered wave-patterns fill her picture-spaces and produce a charged chromatic environment on large canvases and soaring paper installations. Her last solo show was at Aicon Art Gallery, London, in 2009. Sourav Roy meets her as she prepares for her... [more]

Review of Ranjini Shettar's first Indian Solo 'High Tide for a Blue Moon' at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai
From Sat Dec 1, 2012 - to Sun Feb 17 , 2013
The first time we watched time freeze on celluloid, our hearts stopped - water arrested mid-spill, pieces of crockery frozen mid-shatter and explosions suspended mid-air.
This fortnight, prepare to revisit that zen moment with High Tide for a Blue Moon, Ranjani Shettar's first Indian solo show at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum.
Working with craft... [more]

Sourav Roy from Spike Magazine interviews New Zealand artist Shannon Novak about the history of synesthesia and how his practice focuses on the relationship between sound, colour, form, time, and social context
Just what shade of orange is a hemidemisemiquaver? If you could hear a Mondrian, what would it sound like? The works of Shannon Novak, an emerging artist from Auckland, New Zealand will not answer these questions but will raise plenty more, one more fascinating than the next. Hi... [more]